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The Circus, Lobby Card (the monkeys)
Three monkeys climb a frantic tramp.
What
A 1928 lobby card from United Artists for The Circus, a silent romantic comedy.
Why
Chaplin wrote, produced and directed it, and the story has a broke circus hire his Little Tramp as a clown who is only funny by accident.
Notice
Silhouettes of an elephant, a cage wagon and a coach and four parade round the oval still, and the caption below reads "High jinks on the high wire."
“Comedy on the high wire”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- The Circus (1928), dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Country / studio
- United States · United Artists
- Format
- Lobby card
- Poster published
- U.S. lobby card, colour, 1928
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18. Star-portrait piece: sold as the artifact, the film named, the star incidental.
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